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Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1758. Hardcover. Good. Five odd volumes of quadrupeds, various dates. Quartos. Contemporary leather bindings, worn. A profusion of wonderful plates. Uncollated and sold, as is.

London: W. Reynolds, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. 3/4 light brown morocco and marbled paper over boards. Binding lightly rubbed, but a nice copy. Fine Illustrated plates throughout. An uncommon edition of this charming, once popular work of verse with emblems.

Paris: A. Hennuyer, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to. 283 pp. 1/4 leather and marbled boards. Illustrations throughout. A very nice copy.

Harrisburg, PA: Minter Co. Publishers, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 8vo. Original decorative cloth. A bit worn. 758 pp.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange, 1670. Hardcover. Good. 8vo (158 x 97mm). Pagination: [1-8], 9-247pp. Signatures: A-P(8), Q(4). Near contemporary paneled calf, speckled in center and outer panels, tooled with tulip cornerpieces, spine gilt in five compartments, red morocco lettering label “Adventures of Buscon/ Quevedo,” marbled endpapers; (covers loose but present, spine headcap with some chips and loss, some light marginal browning or light ink offsetting on text page versos, margins occasionally trimmed close affecting some text; otherwise a good copy). Second London edition of Francisco de Quevedo’s rogue literature masterpiece, the Historia de la vida del Buscón, literally the “Life of a Scoundrel,” first published in English as “The Life and Adventures of Buscon the Witty Spaniard” by Henry Herringman in 1657. The prominent and successful London bookseller and publisher Henry Herringman (1628–1704) held his shop under the… Read More

London: The Second Coming Magazine, n.d. [1963]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red velvet over boards, backed in gilt-stamped red leather, slipcased; 8vo; pp. [111]. Number 25 from a limited edition of 100 copies, prepared as a New Year Greeting from The Second Coming Magazine. Gift inscription on FFEP ("For Mik..."), and another on the front flyleaf, in a different hand, "To Mr. & Mrs. Robert Frank..." from "Sam and Jack, 12/24/63." Boards just a little rubbed, otherwise book is fine, in worn slipcase.

Venice: Giorgio Rusconi, 14 August 1512, 1512. Hardcover. Good. Edited with notes by Raffaele Regio. Title and woodcut vignette of St. George slaying dragon within 4-part woodcut border. [4], 199, [1] leaves, including initial and final blanks. Folio, early 19th-century 1/4 sheep, spine ends damaged, joints cracked, cords intact, cover corners worn through; contents soiled and dampstained, but with extensive early marginalia at beginning and end, the last 2 preliminary leaves adhered verso to recto, completely obscuring text. A manual of oratory which was very popular in the Renaissance, this is a quite scarce edition, with copious annotations in a contemporary hand. Signed at the end, A. Libertinus.

New York: Cobble Hill Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Limited Edition, 294/500. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Cloth; dust jacket; slipcase; 8vo; pp. 78. Book is fine, in price-clipped dust jacket and lightly rubbed slipcase.